Growing up, I wasn't given many options for discovering music. I had what was on radio, MTV, & VH-1. I never quite made the connection that the bands I saw had more than the few singles that were promoted & released on their own, or for a video. I wasn't deprived from music (dad got grumpy about swears, though.) It never dawned on me that I could acquire and experience a whole other side to acts that I enjoyed, the side the labels didn't tell me about

I bring it up because on Monday, i heard a Smashing Pumpkins song that I NEVER knew existed and I was so fucking mad. cause it was a fucking wonderful track that rocked, and was so very different from the videos they had and the singles on the radio. and it made me think about all the potentially awesome music i never heard growing up like everyone else did.